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== Cothermal states ==
== Cothermal states ==
Interpolate between thermal and coherent states.


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== Negative binomial states ==
Interpolate between thermal and coherent states.
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== Binomial states ==
Interpolate between Fock and coherent states.
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== Phase states ==
== Number-phase states ==
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== Gaussian states ==
== Gaussian states ==

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Quantum States

One popular characterization of quantum states is through Glauber's correlators $g^{(n)}$ (the most famous one being $g^{(2)}$). We provided a nice way to explore the Hilbert space of all quantum states using those as flashlights (see Wading through the Hilbert space).

Fock states

Coherent states

Thermal states

Cothermal states

Interpolate between thermal and coherent states.

Theoretical Aspects of Mixtures of Thermal and Coherent Radiation. G. Lachs in Phys. Rev. 138:B1012 (1965).

Negative binomial states

Interpolate between thermal and coherent states.

Glauber-Sudarshan P representation of negative binomial states. K. Matsuo in Phys. Rev. A 41:519 (1990). Negative Binomial States of Quantized Radiation Fields. H. Fu and R. Sasaki in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 66:1989 (1997).

Binomial states

Interpolate between Fock and coherent states.

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Phase states

Number-phase states

Intermediate number-phase states of the quantized radiation field. B. Baseia, A. d. Lima and G. Marques in Phys. Lett. A 204:1 (1995).

Gaussian states

Gaussian states are those which can be created only with displacement operators and squeezing. See Ref. Quantum optics in the phase space. S. Olivares in Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 203:3 (2012). for a tutorial.

Another one-mode definition is:[1]

A Gaussian state is pure iff the determinant of the coherence variance matrix = 1.[2][3]

Squeezing

Beyond the diagonal

Randomly phased coherent states

Pure thermal distribution

Pure states having thermal photon distribution revisited: generation and phase-optimization. B. Baseia, C. M. Dantas and M. Moussa in Physica A 258:203 (1998).

References